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G. P. SALISBURY. Machine for Greasing Gun. Wads. No. 242,052. PatentedMay 24,1881.

Parent GEORGE P. SALISBURY, on NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSlGNOl-t ro'rnnwmonnsrnn nnrnarmc ARMS COMPANY, or sans PLACE.

achine roe GREASlNG Goa-wees.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 24,72,052, dated May24, 1881.

Application filed February 23, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that l, Gannon P. SALISBURY, of New Haven, in the county ofNew Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented new Improvements inMachines forGreasing Walls; and I do hereby declare, the following, whentaken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters ofreference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, and which said drawings constitute partof this specification,and represent,

Figure 1, a top or plan view; Fig. 2, a side View; Fig. 3,, a sectionalview.

This invention relates to an improvement in machines or apparatus forapplying lubrieating material to the edges of gun-wads, commonlycalledwad-greasing. The wads to he greased are cut from paper, felt, orother fibrous material, and are such as are commonly used in shot-gunsor shot-cartridges, the greasing of the wad being designed for thelubrication of the gun-barrel.

The object of this'invention is to automatically apply the grease ontothe surface of the wad; and it consists in the mechanism as hereinafterdescribed, and partionlarlyrecited in the claims,

A represents a flat disk arranged on a ver tical'shaft,B, and caused torevolve by the application of power thereto'through a pulley, 0, ou theshaft, or otherwise.

l) is a vertical flange, stationary above the disk and standing in closeproximity thereto, and within the edge of the dish a little more thanthe diameter of the wads to be greased. At one point, E, the flange isturned outward in substantially a tangential line, and in a directionopposed to the revolution of the disk, and at this point E a notch iscut in the lower edge of the flange, so as to form a slot, c, betweenthe flange and disk, as seen in partial section, Fig. 2, and so that .amass of wads placed on the disk will be thrown outward 5, against theflange 11 by centrifugal force on ,lil they come to the slot e; then bythe same force they will pass out through the slot c into a channelformed by the flange D and guard h outside, as seen in Fig. l, the wadscarried 5:: through this channel by the disk on which they rest.

G is a disk arranged on a vertical shaft, H, so as to he revolved in ahorizontal plane substantially parallel Witlhtllfi planeot' the disk A,revolution being imparted to this disk through 5 5 a pulley, I, orotherwise, (here represented as a belt from a corresponding policy onthe shaft of the disk A.) The edgeoi' this disk is preterahly milled orserrated, as seen at g. G n the edge of the disk, both aoove and heloyv,is 6c a radially-projecting flange, 7b, the two flanges inclinedoutward, so as to form an annular groove around the disk wider at itsouter edge than at the bottom or periphery'proper of the disk. 6 5 Atone side of the disk G'is a corresponding segment, L, distant from theperiphery of the disk G the sa ne or little less than the diameter oithe wads to he greased, the face ot the segment also serratedoivertically grooved, as 0 seen in Fig.1. This segment also hnsa flange,1, below and l above, corresponding to the flanges on the disk G, asseen in Fig. 3, The

disk Gr and its segment L stand in such relation to the disk A, as seenin Figs. 1 and :2, 7 5

that the wads passing throu'gh the channel P by the movement of the diskA are forced successively between the disk G and its segment L, and sothat when they enter between the diskG and its segment a rotation isimparted to the wads, so that they roll along the face of the segment,this rotation of the wads heing produced in a similar manner to therotation of bullets in bulletgrooving machines. The serrated edge of thedisk or oi the mag 8 5 ment, or both, prevents thc'possihility of thewads sliding, and insures the rolling describe-d.

It will be understood that asuitahle guide,

It, is provided to turn the wads from the channel to pass between thedisk and its segment; 9c

Adjacent to the segment a grease-holder, S,

is arranged, with an opening, m, onto the upper surface of the segment,gutters n, more or less in number, conducting the grease to all pointsat the edge of the segment, it being on 9 5 derstood that the grease isin a liquid condition, maintained in that condition by heat orotherwise, and so that a constant flow of grease passes over the face ofthe segment, andso' that'tho wads rolling along the face of the rcsegment will take up the required quantity of grease thus delivered. Thesurplus grease will pass off and fall from the lower; flange, Z, on thesegment. For the purpose of thus delivering the grease tothe'working-surface of the segment, the upper flange, l, is arranged toleave an opening, 0*, between it and the segment, as seen in Fig. 7 frombetween the disk and segment, as seen in 1, to a suitable receptacleprepared for them. The flanges on the disk and segment prevent the wadfrom tipping out of its horizontal plane, and because of their inclinedsurface they prevent the grease from working onto the correspondingsurfaces ofthe wad, which it naturally would do were the surfaces of theflanges parallel with the surface of the wad. To prevent the wads comingin contact with each other in their passage between the disk G and itssegment a check is provided, (here represented as a latch-like lever,T,)hung upon a pivot, r, so that its nose, or a pin projecting from it,stands in the channel leading from the disk A to the disk G.

On the upper surface of the disk G are several studs, 1 2 3, &c., moreor less in number, each of which, as the disk revolves, will strike anarm,U,on the check T and turn it from the channel, as indicated inbroken lines, so as to permitawad to pass the check. Then when the arm Ufalls from the stud which moved it, it falls behind the wad which haspassed and in front of the next, thus checking the advance of thecolumn, permitting a single wad only to passihat is, leaving a spacebetween successive, wadsand prevent the possibility of their comingincon tact during the operation of greas- To maintain a constant andregular flow of grease over the segment L, I'arrange a reservoir, \V,with an opening, to, the upper edge of which is slightly above the loweredge of the opening in in the grease'holder. The res.

ervoir is filled and closed air-tight. The grease will flow out throughthe passage to, air being admitted at the same passage, until the levelof the grease in the holder S rises so as to close the passage to. Atthat level the grease flows through .the passa ge in over the segment,

. I and so fast as thelevel in the holder falls below the top of theopening w in the reservoir more air will be admitted to the reservoirand a corresponding quantity of grease flow therefrom. Thussubstantially a constant level of grease is maintained in the holder S,and the consequent regular flow therefrom. The flow may be adjusted byraising or lowerin g the reservoir or adjusting the opening torelatively to. the opening m.

In some cases, as in thick wads, the flanges on the disk and segment maybe dispensed with, or the lower flanges only retained but- 'in generalpractice I prefer the two flanges on both the disk and segment.

The delivery of the wads to the greasing mechanism may be made by otherfeeding device thanthat of the disk A operating as de The wads thusgreased pass scribed. As, for instance, they may be placed g upon thedisk and guided into the channel' say as by a guide, indicated by brokenlines X-or they may be otherwise delivered. I howevenprefer the diskoperating through cen= trit'ugal force to deliver the wads to theguiding-channel.

The feeding mechanism herein described that is to say, thehorizontally-revolving disk with stationary flange above it, a channeloutside said flange and upon the disk, with an opening through saidflange through which articles on the disk pass into the'channel bycentrifugal force produced by the revolution of the diskm ay be employedfor analogous purposes-that is to say, the deliveriu g of articles intoa column for the purpose of feedin g them to a device for a subsequentoperation.

I am awareof theinvention of Hubert R. Allen for greasing bullets, forwhich he has ap plied for Letters Patent, in which the bullet rides upona floor betweena revolvingdiskaud a segment, with one or more greasersarranged to grease the surface of bullets revolving be- .tween the saiddisk and segment. I do not claim anything shown or described in saidAllens patent.

I claim- 1. The combination of a revolving disk and a correspondingsegment arranged to leave a space between it and said disk, and throughwhich space the wads are caused to roll along ,the face of the seg.meut,with a grease-holder opening to said segment and delivering a constantflow of grease down over the face of the segment, substantially asdescribed.

2. The combination of a revolving disk and a corresponding segmentarranged to leave a space between it and said disk, and through whichspace the wads are caused to roll along the face of the segment, with agrease-holder opening to said segment and delivering thereto a constantflow of grease, said disk provided with an annular radially-projectingflange or flanges, h, on its edge, substantially as described.

3. The combination of a revolving disk and a corresponding segmentarranged to leave a space between it and said disk,-and through. whichspace the wadsare caused to roll along the face of the segment,'with agrease-holder opening to said segment and delivering there to a constantflow of grease, said segment provided with radially-projectin g flangeor flanges inclined from the face of the segment outward, substantiallyas described.

4; The combination of a revolving disk and i a corresponding segmentarranged to leave a space between it and said disk, and through whichspace the wads are caused to roll along the face of the segment, with agrease-holder provided with opening to said segment and deliveringthereto a constant flow of grease, and a grease-reservoir having itsdelivery-opening in a plane relative to the opening m from thegrease-holder to the segment,'substantially as described, whereby aconstant level or flow of grease is maintained, substantially asdescribed.

5. The combination of a revolviugdisk and 5 a corresponding segmentarranged to leavea space between it and-said disk, and through whichspace the wads are caused to roll along the face of the segment, with agrease-holder provided with opening on to said segment and m deliveringthereto a constant flow of grease;

and a mechanism, substantially such as described, to deliver the wads tothe space between sa-id disk and segment, substantially as described.

15 6. The combination of a revolving disk and a corresponding segmentarranged to leave a space between it and said disk, and through whichspaceithe wads are caused to roll along the face of the segment, with agrease-holder 20 provided with opening 112 to said segment anddelivering thereto a constant flow of grease, a mechanism, substantiallysuch as described, to deliver the wads to the space between said diskand segment, and a check to prevent the contact of the wads in theirpassage between said disk and segment,-substantially as described.

7. The herein-described feed for delivering wads or analogousarticlesinto acolumn, consistin g of a disk revolvin gin a horizontalplane, a stationary flange above'said disk, with an opening-through saidflange into a channel outside said flange but on the surface of thedisk, and through which opening the articles on the disk are caused topass into said channel by centrifugal force produced by said revolving35 disk, substantially as described. I

GEORGE P. SALISBURY.

Witnesses:

DANIEL H. VEADER, James N. KIMBALL.

